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# rises again
"gets back on his feet" or "stands up again"
# wicked people are brought down by calamity
The writer speaks as if "calamity" were a person who could do bad things to other people. These words can be translated in active form. Alternate translation: "God will use calamity to bring down the wicked people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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# are brought down
This is a metaphor of a person who was standing but someone has brought him down to the ground or made him fall. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# calamity
times when bad things happen to people and their property